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Carn Ghluasaid Sgurr nan Conbhairean Sail Chaorainn Map Solo - Trisha stayed in the chalet at Invermoriston. Nice day, cloudy but clear of the tops - the sun broke through in the afternoon and it got quite hot then. Shirt and T-shirt were enough all the way to the top. I left the car by Loch Cluanie and set off at 9.25. The first thing you come across then is the memorial to John Dudley Sandeman, 'lost in the hills above this point' on 3rd Jan 1960, at the age of 19 years and 6 months. The only son of the late PK Sandeman and Mrs Sandeman, poor lass. A cheerful start. Going up Carn Ghluasaid I saw some deer looking down at me about half a mile further up the hill - nowhere to be seen by the time I got there, of course, although there were plenty of tracks. I took 1 hour and 35 mins to get to the top of Carn Ghluasaid, as opposed to 2 hours and 10 mins according to the book. I then got to the top of Sgurr nan Conbhairean in 2 hrs 30 mins (3 hrs 20 mins) and Sail Chaorainn in 3 hrs 30 mins (3hrs 50 mins). From there I carried on along the ridge to cop the next top, only 10 minutes away, because there was a cairn there. Up to this point I hadn't seen a single person on the hills - totally alone - but I passed about 7 on the way back. There had been no navigation difficulties, a good path leading all the way up. On the way down, via Drochaid an Tuill Easaich, the path eventually disppeared, however, and I ended up yomping through the bog and bracken as traditional. The trip took 6 hrs and 5 mins, including 20 mins for the extension bit. All straightforward, nothing difficult. |
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